Electric Yo-Yo, The

Manufacturer: Taito
Year: 1982
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Puzzle
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Vertical
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color

Conversion Class: Taito Classic
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 2
Gameplay: Alternating
Control Panel Layout: Single Player
Controls:

Joystick: 4-way (up, down, left, right)

Sound: Amplified Mono (one channel)

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Electric Yo-Yo, The Description

You play a Yo-Yo whose job is to collect all the dots on a level while avoiding enemies. Certain dots make you immune to attack from the smaller enemies, but not the main enemy.

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Cabinet Information

The game comes in a generic Taito cabinet that is brown on yellow. The marquee, monitor bezel art and control panel all have the Yo-Yo theme.

Conversion

The game uses the same boardset as Qix but has the addition of a coin processor board to prevent ROM swaps. A ROM hack exists to make the game run without the coin processor board, so there is a possibility that a conversion could be a straight ROM swap. Other games that run on nearly identical hardware are Zoo Keeper, Space Dungeon and Kram.

Game Play

Collect all the dots on a level while avoiding enemies. The dots are placed on the playfield in patterns that change from round to round. You move from dot to dot by moving the joystick in the direction you wish to go, which shoots out your Yo-Yo string which grabs onto the next dot in your line of fire. If you try to move in a direction where there is no dot to grab, you end up moving only a little bit. Certain dots sparkle and if you grab those dots you become immune from attack by the smaller enemies, but not the main enemy.

CAPS/VAPS Arcade Census

There are 6,456 members of the Classic Arcade Preservation Society / Video Arcade Preservation Society, 3,706 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 60,819 machines (3,615 unique titles).

Rare - There are 2 known instances of this machine owned by Electric Yo-Yo, The collectors. Of these, 2 of them are original dedicated machines

This game ranks a 1 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

Wanted - There is one VAPS member currently looking for Electric Yo-Yo, The.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them even though arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses, while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up.
Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector.
In particular, since VAPS started out focusing on videogames, statistics for other types of machines should not (yet) be an indication of scarcity.
For a clue to value, look at absolute numbers of owners and potential owners above, compare a ratio of how many people want this game vs. how many people have this game (50%) and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Fixes

If the original NiCad battery is still on the PCB, remove it and replace it with a 3.6v rechargable, mounted away the board. The 4116 video RAM ICs often fail and since they are becoming hard to find, they can be replaced with modified 4164's.

Manuals

Operation, Mainteance and Service Manual 53 Pages, 6086 KB File.

Foto-Finder™

The Encyclpedia of Arcade Video Games, Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256): Page: 137; Color photo;

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